Political Parties Donations

The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the proceedings before a special court in a money laundering case against 'lottery king' Santiago Martin, whose company donated the most to political parties through the electoral bonds scheme.

The Election Commission's request to parties for details of electoral bonds received by them elicited myriad, and often unsolicited, responses -- one party seeking its deregistration and another noting that its chief personally donates Rs 500 once ev

Lalu Prasad Yadav's daughter Rohini Acharya, who donated one of her kidneys to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) patriarch, is set to enter politics and make her Lok Sabha election debut from Bihar's Saran seat, party leaders have indicated

Biocon Ltd Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on Monday said that her Bengaluru-based biopharmaceuticals firm did not make any donations to any political party using electoral bonds.

While several political parties received donations worth crores of rupees via electoral bonds, there is a vast majority which did not get any money through the now-scraped scheme for political funding.

The Reporters' Collective in its analyses of the electoral bonds data released by the Election Commission found companies and individuals donated crores of rupees to political parties under circumstances that would merit a detailed look.

Corporate donations worth thousands of crores to political parties through now-scrapped electoral bonds may have hit the headlines, but there were also 132 such bonds of just Rs 1,000 each bought by individuals as well as corporates.

Megha Engineering has gone viral on social media since the Election Commission revealed that the company was among the biggest donors to political parties in the last 5 years.

Shortly after the Supreme Court declared the electoral bonds scheme unconstitutional, the CPM, also a petitioner in the case, welcomed the verdict and said details of donations to political parties must come out.

Striking down the electoral bonds scheme, the Supreme Court today also flagged "unlimited political funding" by corporates and said it violated the fundamental right to free and fair elections.

The Supreme Court today struck down the electoral bonds scheme which had been brought in 2018 as an alternative to cash donations made to political parties to bring transparency in political funding.

The BJP bagged more than 70 per cent of donations received by political parties from electoral trusts in 2022-23, according to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

Electoral bonds generated donations worth over Rs 9,188 crore for all political parties put together till 2021-22, of which the BJP alone accounted for over 57 per cent as against the Congress' 10 per cent, data published by ADR said.

The Supreme Court is today hearing a batch of requests challenging the constitutional validity of the electoral bonds scheme, which allows anyone in the country to donate money to political parties anonymously.

More than half of all donations received by political parties between 2016-17 and 2021-22 were through Electoral Bonds and the BJP received more funds than all other national parties put together, a report by think tank

The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the proceedings before a special court in a money laundering case against 'lottery king' Santiago Martin, whose company donated the most to political parties through the electoral bonds scheme.

The Election Commission's request to parties for details of electoral bonds received by them elicited myriad, and often unsolicited, responses -- one party seeking its deregistration and another noting that its chief personally donates Rs 500 once ev

Lalu Prasad Yadav's daughter Rohini Acharya, who donated one of her kidneys to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) patriarch, is set to enter politics and make her Lok Sabha election debut from Bihar's Saran seat, party leaders have indicated

Biocon Ltd Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on Monday said that her Bengaluru-based biopharmaceuticals firm did not make any donations to any political party using electoral bonds.

While several political parties received donations worth crores of rupees via electoral bonds, there is a vast majority which did not get any money through the now-scraped scheme for political funding.

The Reporters' Collective in its analyses of the electoral bonds data released by the Election Commission found companies and individuals donated crores of rupees to political parties under circumstances that would merit a detailed look.

Corporate donations worth thousands of crores to political parties through now-scrapped electoral bonds may have hit the headlines, but there were also 132 such bonds of just Rs 1,000 each bought by individuals as well as corporates.

Megha Engineering has gone viral on social media since the Election Commission revealed that the company was among the biggest donors to political parties in the last 5 years.

Shortly after the Supreme Court declared the electoral bonds scheme unconstitutional, the CPM, also a petitioner in the case, welcomed the verdict and said details of donations to political parties must come out.

Striking down the electoral bonds scheme, the Supreme Court today also flagged "unlimited political funding" by corporates and said it violated the fundamental right to free and fair elections.

The Supreme Court today struck down the electoral bonds scheme which had been brought in 2018 as an alternative to cash donations made to political parties to bring transparency in political funding.

The BJP bagged more than 70 per cent of donations received by political parties from electoral trusts in 2022-23, according to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

Electoral bonds generated donations worth over Rs 9,188 crore for all political parties put together till 2021-22, of which the BJP alone accounted for over 57 per cent as against the Congress' 10 per cent, data published by ADR said.

The Supreme Court is today hearing a batch of requests challenging the constitutional validity of the electoral bonds scheme, which allows anyone in the country to donate money to political parties anonymously.

More than half of all donations received by political parties between 2016-17 and 2021-22 were through Electoral Bonds and the BJP received more funds than all other national parties put together, a report by think tank